FRANK WEIR
FEATURED ARTIST OCTOBER 2016
Frank A. Weir began drawing when he was a child and did his first oil painting when he was 10. As a teenager he studied art in McAllen, Texas. When he entered the University of Texas at Austin his major was in geology with minors in art and anthropology. After spending three years in the Army, he returned to UT Austin, switched majors and finally received a bachelors degree in art. He worked for a while in the commercial art field, and then spent several years working as an artist for the Texas Education Agency.
After his marriage to Diane, he returned to graduate school and received graduate degrees from UT Austin and Washington State University in Anthropology specializing in Archaeology. Although he never abandoned his art, he spent the next thirty years studying and working as an archaeologist in Europe and the USA. As an archaeologist he developed a very strong interest in Native Americans and the greater part of his subject matter relates to those people. However, he also does portraits, landscapes and still life, and is considered a master religious Iconographer. His mediums are oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink and egg tempera.
His work has appeared in a number of publications including Texas Highways Magazine, Texas Shores Magazine, The Austin American Statesman, Texas Department of Transportation Environmental publications, and The University of Texas Press. Over the last several years he contributed to the online prehistoric educational program Texas Beyond History. His work appears in collections in California, New Mexico, Texas and Spain. He does take commissions. He is currently working on personal projects and preparing for two commissions concerning historical subjects.
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Christ Pantocrator or Christ Almighty
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